EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo
• 署名单位: University of Padua; University of Padua
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02194.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1866-1887
• 关键词: competition; constraints; incentives; attainment; returns; QUALITY

摘要

When school quality increases with the educational standard set by schools, education before college need not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools. In our model, private schools can offer a lower educational standard at a positive price because they attract students with a relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of public schools excessively demanding. We estimate the key parameters of the model and show that majority voting supports a system where private schools have higher quality in the US and public schools have higher quality in Italy.